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The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened…The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptomes of hypocrisie opened…
The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened in a practical treatise upon Revelations III 17, 18 being the second part of the Saint indeed / by John Flavell ...The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptomes of hypocrisie opened in a practical treatise upon Revelations III 17, 18 being the second part of the Saint indeed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698
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THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 2 › Section 2
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To attend the Ordinances of God in […] seasons of them they know, to pray in th• families at the stated hours thereof th• know; but to retire from all the world i• their Closets, and there to pour out their he•• before the Lord, they know not.
To attend the Ordinances of God in 〈…〉 seasons of them they know, to pray in th• families at the stated hours thereof th• know; but to retire from all the world i• their Closets, and there to pour out their he•• before the Lord, they know not.
To feel somewhat within, paining th• like an empty hungry stomach until th• have eaten that hidden Manna, that br••• ⟨p. 17⟩secret; I mean refreshed their souls with •al communion with the Lord there; this a Mystery locked up from the acquain•nce of many that call themselves Christians; •d yet this is made a Characteristical note of sincere Christian by Christ himself in Matth. 6.
To feel somewhat within, paining th• like an empty hungry stomach until th• have eaten that hidden Manna, that br